Valorant Dev Tracker

Originally posted by FirstTimeRedditterr

I'll give my 2 cents on this as well! Before I start I just wanna say as someone who's played LOL for 6 years, I super respect Riot teams/employees especially for all the communication directly with the player base on forums just like this, so special thanks to you /u/aeneia !

Now in regards to the mics subject. I am just a lowly silver player but even for me it can oftentimes feel like being teamed up with people that just dont use their mic at all and don't even attempt to communicate via pings/text chat can be SUPER frustrating.

As someone who is super active on comms (and not toxic haha), I feel that a cohesive team voice chat actually increases your chances of winning by a great margin. I would be curious to see if Riot had any sort of stats regarding teams who had 3-5 players that even activated their mic once in chat vs teams that didnt (If those stats even exist)

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Originally posted by Tomahawk2559

I notice you reply a lot, so chances are you’ll see this. I’ve tried a couple times making a post about Contract weapon skins possibly getting VFX and stuff we could unlock with Radianite, like the blue cracks on Omen’s ghost lighting up like the glowing energy in the Oni set, Viper’s shorty spewing a little chemicals when it shoots, etc. Is there a way you could bring that up to the rest of the Valorant team? Lots of players would love it and it would make a bit more money! Thanks :)

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Originally posted by canadianvaporizer

I would also note that people who don’t have/use mics for whatever reason are more inclined to learn the ping system, use chat, and utilize the other non-verbal tools at their disposal. Someone who has a 1 week chat ban isn’t incentivized to learn these other tool, as in a week they won’t need to use them.

Originally posted by illuminati_guy_

how can i get that fist symbol next to my name? thanks

Originally posted by R34CT10Nkillz

Yeah that's my take on it. As an EU player is common to get people who don't speak but it'd much rather have someone who can't speak over someone who is banned from speaking.

The lock from competitive also gives them an incentive to not be toxic and improve

Originally posted by R34CT10Nkillz

I think there's a difference between someone who is toxic versus someone who isn't but has mic/muted and disabled. The toxic person is less likely to play with the team especially if they get frustrated and their only way to take it out is to grief the game.

Originally posted by skinsaremylife

hey man just wanted to say thanks for replying to all the folks here , u guys doing great job with game and its enjoyable :) take ur time and fix stuff :) thanks for great support and always being interactive.

Originally posted by thisnotfor

Just make sure not to add any perma bans, if anyone would even still remember to try the game after a few months they deserve a second chance

Originally posted by thisnotfor

Im glad your taking slow so that people don't get falsely banned, nearly every other game just has a lazy blanket system that bans innocents

Originally posted by lazynova

Coming year is a pretty big time window, hopefully it's sooner rather than later. I really want to like Valorant, but so many games just feel awful. I was excited to finally get a melee skin because pepermint is awesome and I'm a recovering candy cane addict, but after playing a normal game first I remembered, oh yea, I don't want to play Valorant until matchmaking is better.

I saw the headline about Valorant taking action against smurfing earlier and was eager to see what it was going to be and so disappointed to see that it was only requiring 10 wins instead of 20 games. So count me as someone fully in favor of stricter.

Originally posted by JR_Shoegazer

Being honest here, we're already working on this. It just takes a lot of time to design something that is fair, reasonable, and has a good chance of being effective; and even more time to coordinate across teams for how this actually gets implemented in game.

One thing that doesn’t take as much time is banning those who are chat banned from the ranked queue. They should not be able to play competitive. You’re inadvertently punishing their teammates.

Originally posted by Capetoider

I would say to get a time ban on any mode you're playing and "above":

You keep being toxic (or other stuff) on unrated, then you're banned from unrated and competitive.

In spike rush? Enjoy being able to play only DM.

Even in DM? Keep playing it, alone and muted for everyone.

Depending on infractions make it so you have to "unlock" playing other modes again by not being an a*hole following this.